SQL Server 2008 completely meets Microsofts vision for it as it allows your organization to manage any company data, whenever, wherever. You can store almost any kind of data directly onto the server, whether its structured, semi-structured or fully structured data, like images or rich media.
The server provides a complete service enabling you to do as you please with your data, like search it, synchronize it, analyze it, run queries or run reports.
In order to take advantage of the opportunities presented in todays ever changing business world, being able to implement effective, data-driven solutions is vital. SQL Server 2008 provides highest levels of scalability, reliability and security on all of your companies crucial applications as well as reducing the cost and time taken to develop the applications themselves.
You can access data from across your entire database and archives, as well as provide control over it wherever its stored, whether its in the biggest servers or on a desktop or mobile device. The information stored will be accessible to your staff from the standard applications of Microsoft Office or most commonly used tools.
Solutions offered by SQL Server 2008:
OLTP: OLTP-Online Transaction Processing, Where a large number of transactions are carried out every minute by a large number of users. SQL Server 2008 provides highly efficient database solutions to be used in these environments. It provides scalability and performance required by these applications. It provides high availability ” Always-On Capabilities with less management and performance overhead.
Business Intelligence: The majority of large organisations will have access to large amounts of data, but what a lot of companies fail to do is convert that data into information, then apply it in an intelligent way to aid your business. SQL Server 2008 enables you to carry out these operations effectively, creating intelligence from the data and applying that to your next business move, hence, business intelligence.
Application Development: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is at the heart of a comprehensive data platform that enables you to access and manipulate business-critical data from a variety of diverse devices, platforms, and data services across the enterprise. It Improves developers productivity by providing seamless integration between frameworks, data connectivity technologies and programming languages, web services, development tools and data. Developers can develop data-centric solutions that access, consume, and manage data from any data source, and enable efficient delivery to relevant users.
What Analysts Say: ChannelWeb: CRN Staff Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.
Gartner, Inc. Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth.